FEFE supports measures that pharmacists can be taken to avoid population is left without drugs.

Madrid, December of 2011. The Assembly of the Business Federation of Spanish pharmaceutical (FEFE) met last Thursday in Madrid has sympathized with all pharmacies currently are enduring the delay in the payment of the debt they have with them various autonomous administrations ” and urges the new Government to take measures ” to regularize this situation. is trying to avoid – drew FEFE – a bankruptcy in the pharmaceutical provision and the population is left without drugs you need ”.

FEFE mourning especially with the Valencian community pharmacists who have planned a shutdown on 19, 20 and 21 December, pending the announcement of the Generalitat of the payment of part of the debt on schedule. The problem of non-payment affects especially, as well as Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Andalusia, Murcia and the Canary Islands. The last drug Observatory of FEFE believed that, overall, delays end of the year will exceed EUR 1.9 billion and affect 15.273 pharmacies, almost 70 per cent of the total Spain.

The Assembly returned to insist that the only way out of this grave situation is that you there is the endorsement of the State and the political commitment of the new Government to find a viable solution to this crisis. The Government of the nation – says FEFE – you can not leave the survival of the pharmaceutical provision to the sole criterion of the autonomous communities. Cannot be allowed that the patients in certain regions are the big losers of a situation which are totally alien. The pharmaceutical provision is a basic constitutional right by what we do call the new Government so that it endorse pharmaceutical debt throughout the country, avoid the shortages and all citizens can access normally to the medicines they need ”, ends by saying the employer pharmaceutical.